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by bryanlarsen 2212 days ago
Saying UBI is causing the inflation is disingenuous. It's the deficits that cause inflation. If UBI is fully paid for with new taxes, it won't cause inflation.
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I think it would be fair to say that UBI causes inflation and to also say that taxation lowers inflation.
Any government spending (whether for UBI or missile systems) not paid for with taxes increases inflation, but there are lots of countervailing forces that mitigate it, not just taxation, the largest factor perhaps being downward wage pressure on workers.